I wrote about Russia's greatest disinformation campaign, and then had some thoughts about Putin's useful idiots on the far left. open.substack.com/pub/sianushk...

I spotted the first Christmas goods in some shops in August. Everywhere there are Christmas trees, lights, and jumpers. The "Christmas is cancelled" folks are deranged.

"Fun & joy are very powerful political forces & not ones the left are terribly used to dealing with" The final print edition of Byline Times may be my favourite of the year. What is the 'politics of feeling' & why does it matter? Plus 'A Red Top Christmas Carol' with a Mr Murdoch & his 3 Spirits 👇

I've been thinking for a while that fighting the fossil fuel propaganda war is the most important climate fight to be having. The other side is well funded (and hence well armed) and we need to be as well.

Turns out greenwashing is easy if you own a water company. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/nov/30/england-water-companies-issued-105bn-in-green-bonds-despite-pollution-record

It’s hard to find much evidence of a true youth movement rallying behind Kirk beside the conservatives who were already fans. Instead, we see a top-down effort from powerful people to use a controversial man’s death to create a cult of personality where one didn't exist. trib.al/pAP5Egz

#TheresaMay has denounced as a “catastrophic mistake” a promise by #KemiBadenoch to scrap Britain’s flagship climate change legislation. Also other Tory grandees believe the main opposition party should be proud of its record in fighting climate change on.ft.com/4gQgXsJ #Tories #EPP #AfD #CDU

Word of the Day is ‘tandsmør’, from Danish. It describes bread that is buttered so thickly you can see tooth marks in it after every bite. Its literal translation? ‘Tooth butter’.

Still waiting for Iain Dale to realise his Conservative Party has gone completely nuts and can't be supported anymore. But I've been waiting for that for a long time. Still, hope springs eternal.

Handmade by the artist. Comes in gift box with numbered and signed card of authenticity. Available for preorder for short time only👇👇👇👇 coldwarsteve.bigcartel.com/product/patr...

Macron: “We’ve been guilty of handing over our public democratic space to social networks owned by big American and Chinese firms whose interests are not in the survival and the functioning of our democracy." I'm quite hopeful that French-German leadership on tech sovereignty can achieve something.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

🚨EXCLUSIVE ‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem Insiders reveal that the former MEP - convicted of bribery for his part in the Kremlin’s strategic plan to crush Ukrainian independence - was one of Farage’s closest aides bylinetimes.com/2025/10/04/t...

This is an old formula used by authoritarian regimes. Stoke chaos and blame scapegoats to justify the use of force.

A second released flotilla activist has confirmed that Israel beat and ritually humiliated 22-year-old climate and human rights activist Greta Thunberg, one of almost five hundred activists kidnapped in international waters by the rogue genocidal regime www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

Leaving the EU’s power market is costing us dearly! Brexit is adding up to £370 million a year onto our electricity bills, money that could be in people’s pockets instead. We need our government to be brave enough to reverse this. www.europeanmovement.co.uk/uk-eu-enviro...

#StandUpForScience #ScienceUnderSiege

big dick toilet salesman has thoughts. disgusting traitor.

« L’historienne Françoise Thom éclaire les liens entre Jeffrey #Epstein, Robert #Maxwell et les cercles du pouvoir soviétique puis russe 🇷🇺. Et si la fameuse « liste » des clients d’Epstein était entre les mains du FSB ? » by @deskrussie.bsky.social desk-russie.eu/2025/07/28/l...

Couchfucker is working for a child rapist. And he knows it.

If that's so, then aren't you releasing the files? 🤔

All that noise about a “stolen election” in 2020 is just MAGA projection for what they want to do today.

I believe they call this "finding out" arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Current & fmr HHS employees have called for RFK Jr.'s resignation. "'Kennedy is directly responsible for the villainization of CDC’s workforce... CDC offices...closed thru Monday. Employees have been asked to work remotely & **remove CDC stickers & other decor from their vehicles.**" 🛟 Medsky 😷🧪

Nope, still not distracted. Release the Epstein files.

And what's most annoying is you can basically replace *ANY* historic European city with the not-Edinburgh example here

The number of jobless benefit claimants aged 50 or older has reached nearly two million for the first time, a study has found

Small but fascinating update on this. According to Vanity Fair, Epstein – a Trump supporter – hosted a meeting between Thiel and the Russian Ambassador to the UN, Vitaly Churkin, days before Trump’s election victory in 2016. open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...

Reform UK was created to make Brexit happen. Nigel Farage spent 27yrs promising Brexit would make British people richer. Now both Nigel Farage & Reform Party officials say Brexit, their main policy, is making Brits poorer. ANYONE WHO STILL BACKS REFORM IS A TRAITOR TO THE UK!

via @theguardian.com

I’ve never seen anything like this in my life. My gas mask paid for itself within the first minute the ice agents came out of the building. They escalated to this immediately, like it was a war zone- flash bombs, various gasses… #fightfascism #fuckice

Front Page of the Day: He will not be deterred. #ReleaseThe_EPSTEIN_Files

Statt auf den US-Konzern setzen die Länder #Bremen und #Niedersachsen nach eigenen Angaben auf eine europäische Lösung. Die Palantir-Software ist wegen Datenschutzbedenken umstritten. www.butenunbinnen.de/nachrichten/...

"Scrap the two-child limit. Do it now. Not next year. Not after another consultation. Now"

The threat to our society is not from asylum seekers in small boats. It’s from politicians and media cynically whipping up fear and prejudice, labelling them all as criminals, inciting hatred against people for where and what they’ve fled from. It must stop. For all our sakes. It’s deeply sinister.

Arresting 400+ people for the "terrorist" offence of protesting against mass murder while large segments of the right are openly encouraging riots against immigrants is a tale of a very unhappy country and government.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a... We are sailing very close to Orwell's concept of Thought Crime...

Hello again on Day 1264 of the all-out invasion and war started by Russia. Putin's vanity project was supposed to be a 3-day "Special Operation", but his Intel was as wide of the mark as his morals. Here's my daily thread covering all things Ukraine and Russia

Perhaps if Donald cuts supplies to Ukraine they will be forced to surrender. It worked the previous 3 times he's done it.

NATO reconnaissance aircraft activity over the Black Sea in July 2025.

At the time of writing the word Palestine has not been proscribed:https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/09/palestine-action-protests-live-israel-gaza-war-police/

It makes sense once you realize that every accusation is a confession.

What an absolute waste of time and resources.

There were police everywhere in central London yesterday. I think there’s an attitude from some politicians who think the public likes this - that we’ll see it as a show of strength. Are you joking? Londoners want to move about our city, and exercise free speech tolerantly.

Eisenhower saw clearly how dangerous the influence of the military-industrial complex in the US could be. In fact, large companies determine political policies in America. The Trump administration shows what happens as a result. Unrestrained capitalism is the breeding ground for fascism.

In Crescent Park, Palo Alto, neighbors say peace vanished when Mark Zuckerberg moved in—buying 11 homes, building a secretive compound, running an unpermitted school & bringing 8 years of noise, parties & heavy security. He sent neighbors noise canceling headphones.

Turns out it’s not only Muslims that don’t like genocide: people generally tend to not approve of fascist governments exterminating entire urban populations. I know, I was surprised too